An artefact as defined by dictionary.com: any mass-produced, (usually inexpensive!!!) object reflecting contemporary society or popular culture.
Having been made sons of the Father, achieving artefact status is not something any of us should be very satisfied with during death bed reflections, I would have thought.
To define our own reality by reference to our 'life experience' is to forgo the freedom of the children of God, instead to prefer servitude to the accidents of our historical context, with its prevailing philosophical fashions, along with the accidents of our psychological formation.
And rigid, prideful, contingent self-assertion is never going to end well, certainly not according to our potential, having been made as we are in the image and likeness of God.
Augustine's cor inquitem: "My heart is restless until it rests in thee o' Lord," functions to pull us out of the mires of sin and depravity on the one hand, and our self-sufficiency and pride on the other.
John of the Cross, who understood the necessity of transcending 'life experience' better than anyone, might perhaps be mistaken as aggro dismissive when he stated:
Those who trust in themselves are worse than the devil!!!!!
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